Chinese immigration and Great Migration

  • chinese seamen arrive

    Three Chinese seamen arrive in the continental United States aboard the ship Pallas in Baltimore, MD.
  • First U.S. Census

    The first U.S. Census notation of Chinese in America records three Chinese living in the United States.
  • Record of Chinese

    There is record of four Chinese living in the United States.
  • Chinese Population

    Chinese American population represents 4,000 out of a total U.S. population of 23.2 million.
  • African American Migrates

    Between 1890 and 1920, about two million African Americans migrate from the rural southern states to the northern cities, where they hope to find better opportunities and less discrimination.
  • Congress makes the chinese Exclusion

    Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion acts indefinite. Law enforcement officials arrest 250 allegedly illegal Chinese immigrants without search warrants.
  • the national Association

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, and prominent black leader W.E.B. Du Bois becomes editor of the group's monthly magazine, Crisis.
  • James Johnson's

    James Weldon Johnson's influential novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is published.
  • Jamaican Arrives

    Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey arrives in Harlem and founds the United Negro Improvement Association, an organization that urges blacks to unite and form their own nation.
  • African American

    Between 10,000 and 15,000 African Americans join the Silent Protest Parade, marching down Fifth Avenue in complete silence to protest violence against blacks.